Wyndham Robertson

Wyndham Robertson (26 January 1803-11 February 1888) was Governor of Virginia from 1836 to 1837, succeeding Littleton Walter Tazewell and preceding David Campbell.

Biography
Wyndham Robertson was born in Manchester, Chesterfield County, Virginia on 26 January 1803, the brother of John Robertson and Thomas B. Robertson. He graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1821 to become a lawyer, and he became Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia in 1836. He became Governor when Littleton Walter Tazewell resigned as Governor, serving until 1837. From 1838 to 1841 and from 1859 to 1865, he was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates as a US Whig Party member, and he was opposed to secession at the time of the American Civil War; however, when President Abraham Lincoln blockaded Virginia and ordered for 75,000 volunteers to be raised to fight against the Confederate States of America, Robertson remained loyal to his state. He helped with Virginia's readmission to the Union after the war's end, and he died in 1888 at the age of 85.